Fast Forward 2has just been shortlisted for the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award, with the result that I can barely type let alone think. So in lieu of being eloquent, here's the press release: The judges of the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleased to announce six nominated works that comprise the final ballot for the award: EMIS...

Philip K. Dick, the only science fiction writer to have his work reissued by the Library of America, "has been described, alternately, as paranoid, hilarious, childish and deeply empathetic," Scott Timberg reports in today's pages. These days, Dick is widely...

The judges of the 2009 Philip K, Dick Award have announced the list of nominees, and we are absolutely thrilled that Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days made the list! Here's the press release! For Immediate Release:  2009 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced The judges of the 2009 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleas...

Philip K Dick’s last wife has reworked the novel the legendary science fiction author was working on when he died in 1982. Tessa Dick, who described her self-publication of The Owl in Daylight as a tribute to her former husband, was Dick’s fifth and final wife, marrying him in 1973. She told online magazine the Self-Publishing Review

Philip K Dick's last wife has reworked the novel the legendary science fiction author was working on when he died in 1982. Tessa Dick, who described her self-publication of The Owl in Daylight as a tribute to her former husband, was Dick's fifth and final wife, marrying him in 1973. She told online magazine the Self-Publishing Review that her version of the novel was an attempt to expres...

Turned down by mainstream publishers, the widow of famed science fiction author Philip K. Dick has taken her husband's final, unfinished project to the print-on-demand company, CreateSpace. Tessa Dick was Dick's last wife before he died of a stroke, leaving behind plans to write a book entitled The Owl in Daylight. "I attempted to recreate the masterpiece that he had in mind, even though...

Google's new mobile phone, the Nexus One, is under scrutiny from the estate of the late science-fiction author Philip D. Dick. The author's family sent a letter to the internet giant on Wednesday asking the company to cease using the name, which it says is lifted from Dick's 1968 novel Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep?.

On this day, reality split and claimed science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. In great pain from the extraction of an impacted wisdom tooth and awaiting pain medication from the pharmacy, he answered the door at his Fullerton, Calif., home and was dazzled by the sunlight reflecting off the delivery girl's Christian fish necklace. At that moment, Dick experienced anamnesis, Greek for "loss of forge...

Philip K. Dick would be 80 years old today (yesterday, I mean: I just posted this at 00:12 of the 17th - sorry about that). My friend and colleague Adriana Amaral is making this the PKD Week in her blog (the posts are in Portuguese, but she links up many PKD related stuff in English as well. Check it out!

Emissaries for the Dead by Adam-Troy Castro and Terminal Mind by David Walton tied for the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award, the results presented at a ceremony during Norwescon in Seattle this past Friday. Ties are rare in the history...